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Home in Quebec City for the holidays, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, 66, effortlessly shucked his public position for the private role he likes best. In the comfortable, 17-room yellow brick house he built on aristocratic Grande Aliée in 1912, he seemed like any other head of a family. His two sons, three daughters and 13 grandchildren were around him. There were large family dinners in the big, homey dining room; Madame St. Laurent took over in the kitchen, got to work with her favorite French Canadian recipes...
During King's absence and illness in London (TIME, Nov. 1), Louis St. Laurent, the man he had picked to succeed him, had moved into the Prime Minister's office in the East Block. But for the press conference, everything was back in the same order in which methodical Mackenzie King had kept it over the years. A picture of Harry Truman, autographed "To Louis St. Laurent," had been taken off the walnut, table-type desk and was half-hidden on a shelf. Mackenzie King sat again in his stuffed blue swivel chair and rested his feet...
This week, the man who, in his years in the East Block, had made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...
...what it meant in costs, in men, in material to Canada, the government was hazy. But clearly the government was preparing the public for its role in North Atlantic defense. At week's end, Prime Minister-Designate Louis St. Laurent, long an apostle of North Atlantic security, said gravely: "Canada cannot possibly remain neutral in a third world war even if 11,999,999 out of 12,000,000 Canadians want to stay out ... A third world war would produce results that cannot be conceived. But we believe there is a way such a happening can be prevented...
...Laurent was hoping that the conference would take up his own project of North Atlantic Union-allying Canada and the U.S. with Western Union in Europe. St. Laurent had made the first public proposal of North Atlantic Union nearly six months ago. The trip to London was a chance to give the idea another personal push...